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Overview of Ruby IDEs
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Aptana (Eclipse Plugin)
facilities, ease of use, system requirements, and support for the Ruby way of thinking.
NetBeans
NetBeans is known primarily for its very popular Java IDE bundle. Unlike Eclipse, which supports Ruby through plugins such as Aptana, Sun Micosystems offers a standalone Ruby-oriented toolset based on customizable and easily expandable NetBeans framework.
The hardware requirements to run NetBeans for Ruby are:
- Processor: 800MHz Intel Pentium III or equivalent (2.6 GHz Intel Pentium IV or equivalent recommended)
- Memory: 512 MB (2 GB recommended)
- Disk space: 750 MB of free disk space (1 GB recommended)
According to [3], the following major components are included in the NetBeans for Ruby bundle:
- Ruby Source Code Editor
- Ruby and Rails Debugger
- Support for Ruby projects
- Ruby Gems Installation Manager
RubyMine
facilities, ease of use, system requirements, and support for the Ruby way of thinking.